Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 2026
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2026. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20262 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 53 more | 9 hr |
| May 9, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 27 more | 8 hr |
| May 14, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 14 more | 3 hr |
| May 18, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Craig, Custer, Dewey and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 8 hr |
| May 23, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
| May 29, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 3 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Custer County6
- Blaine County5
- Dewey County5
- Kingfisher County5
- Kiowa County5
- Major County5
- Noble County5
- Tillman County5
- Washita County5
- Garfield County4
- Kay County4
- Logan County4
- Payne County4
- Alfalfa County4
- Beckham County4
- Greer County4
- Harmon County4
- Jackson County4
- Roger Mills County4
- Woods County4
- Caddo County3
- Canadian County3
- Comanche County3
- Cotton County3
- Grady County3
- Osage County3
- Pawnee County3
- Woodward County3
- Cimarron County3
- Texas County3
- Grant County3
- Carter County2
- Craig County2
- Garvin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnston County2
- Lincoln County2
- Love County2
- Marshall County2
- Murray County2
33 more counties
- Nowata County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Ottawa County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Stephens County2
- Washington County2
- Beaver County2
- Ellis County2
- Harper County2
- Adair County1
- Atoka County1
- Bryan County1
- Cherokee County1
- Cleveland County1
- Coal County1
- Creek County1
- Delaware County1
- Haskell County1
- Hughes County1
- LeFlore County1
- McClain County1
- McIntosh County1
- Mayes County1
- Muskogee County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Rogers County1
- Seminole County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.